1964
DOI: 10.1119/1.1970268
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Newton's Laws of Motion and the 17th Century Laws of Impact

Abstract: A number of writers on history of science have made it clear that in using the term “motive force” in the “Principia,” Newton referred to what we now call “impulse.” With this interpretation, there is a simple and plausible connection between the laws of impact as they were known and described in Newton's day and Newton's formulation of the Laws of Motion in the “Principia,” and we speculate that Newton might have been motivated by such a perception.

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“…We may now confirm this result by applying Newton's second law to the closed system I+II using (2). The velocity of the centre of mass can be calculated directly from the quantities mentioned in figure 3 and in table II:…”
Section: B Example 2: Falling Of a Ropesupporting
confidence: 58%
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“…We may now confirm this result by applying Newton's second law to the closed system I+II using (2). The velocity of the centre of mass can be calculated directly from the quantities mentioned in figure 3 and in table II:…”
Section: B Example 2: Falling Of a Ropesupporting
confidence: 58%
“…Articles on teaching of variable mass systems have addressed a number of interesting issues [1, 2,3,4,5]. For instance, through adequate examples, Tiersten [3] illustrates a sophisticated approach to be applied to open systems, i.e., systems for which there exists a mass influx or efflux.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the above equations, p stands for the (linear) momentum defined as p ≡ m v, with m denoting the mass of the system and, v, its velocity. Application of Newton's second law to variable mass systems has been a source of some confusions and disagreements in the past and some authors [3,4,5,6,7,8,9] have addressed this issue specifically. They all conclude that Newton's second law in the form given by Eq.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…More specifically, the authors of Refs. [3,4,5,6,9] state that Eq. ( 1) applies only to two special situations, while the authors of Refs.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Šios Maksvelo pastabos teisingumą patvirtino jau XX a. mokslo istorikų -E. Dijksterhuiso (Dijksterhuis 1956), A. Aronso (Arons, Bork 1964), R. Westfallo ir kt. tyrimai.…”
Section: Mutationem Motus Proportionalem Esse VI Motrici Impressae Eunclassified